c. 1885
Oil on panel
£5,750.00
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Cockle pickers on the beach at sunset
by Marie Francois Firmin-Girard
1880
Oil on panel
£19,950.00
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Honfleur -l’embarquement des boeufs pour l’Angleterre
by Jean-Francois Raffaelli
René His was a pupil of Jules Lefebvre, Tony-Robert-Fleury and Henri Biva. He painted mostly landscapes of bodies of water, ponds and rivers and views of Provence and Algeria. He regularly exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Français, receiving honourable mention in 1898, and honourable mention again with a 3rd class medal in 1900, when he became a member on the occasion of the Exposition Universelle.